Comments on: 30 Days, Season 2, Episode 2:Outsourcing http://www.seanpaune.com/2006/08/06/30-days-season-2-episode-2outsourcing/ Sun, 12 Feb 2012 05:14:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Luis http://www.seanpaune.com/2006/08/06/30-days-season-2-episode-2outsourcing/comment-page-1/#comment-10892 Luis Tue, 08 Aug 2006 06:31:31 +0000 http://seanpaune.com/?p=732#comment-10892 Two things about this episode: I don't think Chris was that good a subject, as 30 Days is supposed to be about changing hearts and minds, and Chris' was fairly open from the start. Second, and this was also a flaw in episode 2-1 (illegal immigrants), the show did not touch at all on the corporate greed involved. In both cases, outsourcing and undocumented workers, the focus was on the humanity of the workers from other countries--which is all good--but the fact remains that in both cases, the changes are not made to benefit those people, the changes are made so that corporations can lower costs while maintaining prices and therefore grab huge loads of cash for themselves, whilst lowering the average payment to the working class overall. I thought that this should at least have been mentioned as an aside... Two things about this episode: I don’t think Chris was that good a subject, as 30 Days is supposed to be about changing hearts and minds, and Chris’ was fairly open from the start.

Second, and this was also a flaw in episode 2-1 (illegal immigrants), the show did not touch at all on the corporate greed involved. In both cases, outsourcing and undocumented workers, the focus was on the humanity of the workers from other countries–which is all good–but the fact remains that in both cases, the changes are not made to benefit those people, the changes are made so that corporations can lower costs while maintaining prices and therefore grab huge loads of cash for themselves, whilst lowering the average payment to the working class overall.

I thought that this should at least have been mentioned as an aside…

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